{"id":28780,"date":"2013-02-17T17:52:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T17:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28780"},"modified":"2013-02-17T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T17:52:51","slug":"namako-sea-cucumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28780","title":{"rendered":"Namako: Sea Cucumber"},"content":{"rendered":"

Namako: Sea Cucumber<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Coffee House Press<\/a>
\nSeptember 1998
\n256 pages
\nPaperback ISBN-10: 1566890756; ISBN-13: 978-1566890755<\/p>\n

Linda Watanabe McFerrin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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“McFerrin’s first novel paints a portrait of a truly multicultural family\u2014a Scottish father, a half-British and half-Japanese mother, and four children… McFerrin’s writing is thoughtful and smooth as she captures ever-changing images of the world around Ellen and her family, successfully filtering those images through the eyes of her youthful characters”-Library Journal. McFerrin writes: “I came at last to namako, a word that in the Japanese combination of characters means both ‘sea cucumber’ and ‘raw child,’ a symbol for the simplicity and vulnerability that I feel is at the root of the Japanese and perhaps all psyches.” The end result is, according to Publishers Weekly<\/em>, “a vivid, often humorous novel” that “offers a winning young heroine, a complex family and memorable vignettes of a year spent betwixt and between.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Namako: Sea Cucumber Coffee House Press September 1998 256 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1566890756; ISBN-13: 978-1566890755 Linda Watanabe McFerrin “McFerrin’s first novel paints a portrait of a truly multicultural family\u2014a Scottish father, a half-British and half-Japanese mother, and four children… McFerrin’s writing is thoughtful and smooth as she captures ever-changing images of the world around Ellen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,8,15],"tags":[13683,13684],"class_list":["post-28780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-coffee-house-press","tag-linda-watanabe-mcferrin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}